Bias And Being an Outsider: A Reflexive Notes on Research on Indonesian Female Migrant Workers in Taipei, Taiwan
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Micro sociological research is always problematic. Often, these problems refer to the researcher who is studying an individual. Researchers often feel that the joy or sadness experienced by the individual they are researching also has an impact on the researcher when the researcher transcribes the data or rewrites it into an academic paper. This is how I felt when writing about the deep joy and sadness of Indonesian female migrant workers in Taipei, Taiwan. The sense of bias is always there in my mind so that the writing I produce is not neutral. Therefore, sociological micro-researchers need to be outsiders even if they know the individuals to be studied well. This paper is my reflexive notes as I conduct research on them.
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